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...wild card in all this is the flood of new games published on CD-ROMs for personal computers. Having languished on computer-store shelves for nearly a decade, CD-ROM's for Macintosh and IBM-compatible PCs are suddenly taking off. "Trip got blindsided by CD-ROMs," says John Taylor, an analyst at L.H. Alton, a San Francisco-based investment firm. "People who bought PCs for all sorts of reasons are saying, 'I just spent $2,500 for my multimedia computer. Why should I spend $400 on a dedicated game machine...
...banking they treat you like a CD-ROM, turning you on and off," Abelli says. "In consulting, you're put in a pretty good position...a good consulting experience will teach you how to ask questions...
Other musical groups aren't quite as ready to replace human players with machines in the studio, but some are taking advantage of the current multimedia craze to release CD-ROM versions of their recordings. These special editions often contain both sound data from their audio CD cousins and computer data that can be loaded into a Windows or Macintosh PC to provide a graphical interface to the music...
...software development industry took notice when folks from the music world began including computer-readable data on their CDs, responding in kind by including traditional audio data on their CD-ROMs. Today, many of the latest CD-ROM releases include audio soundtracks that can be played either through the PC or separately in a standard audio CD player...
After winning two matches Thursday to qualify for the singles tournament, Hausman won three matches in the main draw before falling in the quarterfinals to Miami's Yoni Rom...